SARGSYAN ELECTED ARMENIAN PRESIDENT – CEC
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS
February 26, 2008
Russia
Serzh Sargsyan was elected Armenian president at the February 19
presidential election, chairman Armenian Central Elections Commission
(CEC) Garegin Azarian at an extraordinary session of the commission
presenting official results of the election.
Sargsyan won 52.82% of votes. Levon Ter-Petrosian came second with
21.5%. Artur Bagdasarian was the third with 17.7%.
The election results protocol was signed by all six members that
attended the Sunday session. CEC members from the Heritage and the
Rule of Law opposition parties did not come to the meeting.
Twenty-four complaints about the election submitted to the CEC could
not influence the final results of the election, Azarian said.